Part 2
Sergei Volkodav used every opportunity to have doctors allowed to see him. On December 12, he asked for help from the convoy at the Tverskoy court, where an ambulance was called for him.
On December 29, an ambulance called for Sergei Volkodav arrived at pre-trial detention center 4. First, presumably at the request of representatives of the pre-trial detention center, they tried to accuse him of simulation, and then they diagnosed him with a personality disorder, but left him behind bars. They decided to send the businessman to pre-trial detention center 2 (Butyrka), where they refused to admit him for medical reasons – he was very ill. They called an ambulance again, doctors made a preliminary diagnosis of stroke and hospitalized him in City Clinical Hospital No. 13, presumably due to the availability of space in the neurosurgical department. There they discovered a huge hematoma in the head – the consequences of the beating. On the same day, the patient underwent surgery to remove a hematoma in the brain. On January 2, repeated intervention was required – another trepanation was needed to remove postoperative swelling. All this time, Sergei Volkodav was in a coma and none of the businessman’s relatives knew about the lifting of the preventive measure.
Brother Yuri tried to get to the hospital to see him, but in vain, all days from December 30, 2023 to January 4, 2024, a convoy of three soldiers was on duty at the ward, and by phone the hospital staff answered the family that the patient was in a special situation and what to say about him – or prohibited. As a result, Wolfhound died. He is survived by three minor children.
Let us recall that Sergei Volkodav, together with his brother Yuri, the ex-head of the Main Military Construction Directorate (GVSU) No. 6 (formerly Dalspetsstroy), was sentenced in January 2022 by the Khabarovsk court to 4.9 and 6.5 years in prison. Later, Sergei Volkodav was convicted of fraud in the amount of about 50 million rubles. After recalculating the terms (to offset the time spent in the pre-trial detention center), the court decided that he should serve his sentence for 4.9 years.
Sergei Volkodav appealed the decision, the appellate instance found violations and returned the case to the prosecutor’s office. The businessman was released and he left for Moscow. At the same time, the prosecutor’s office appealed the court’s decision, after which the entrepreneur was put on the wanted list, and then caught and arrested in August 2023. In the 12th department of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow, another episode was “born” for Volkodav, allegedly about the theft of almost 1 billion from the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Spetsstroy of the Russian Federation.
According to his relatives, Sergei Volkodav was confident of his innocence and regularly wrote various complaints and petitions from the detention center. The only person who, in the opinion of the entrepreneur himself, did not wish him well was the investigator who was leading the case. He constantly tried to “press” Volhhound so that he would admit guilt. Without a confession, the case looked inconclusive. As a result, the investigator even resorted to forgery. He supplemented the case materials with documents when the parties had already become familiar with the volumes. Sergei Volkodav believed that the investigation had no evidence and they tried to “unwind” him by any means in order to worsen his situation.
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